I want to preface this by saying I am primarily a healer, and have been since back in Vanilla WoW. I’ve healed on all classes besides Druids, and I rolled my current shaman specifically for healing. I have found that healing can be as stressful as it is fun, relatively speaking.
That said, I have by far encountered more whining, bullying and all caps rage from healers in pugs and even my own guild. I’ve been there; but years ago I’ve just learned to chill out because WoW is, in the end, a game that I want to enjoy playing, and it’s too much energy getting worked up over it.
Now, again, I want to be fair. I can’t stand healing groups where people can’t move out of AoE and basically scrap all logic to crank out a little extra DPS. I’ve lost so many keys to people dying by sanding in whirlwinds or standing in front of bosses. I get it! Healing is often hard and gets some of the worst flack compared to tanks and dps.
So, healers, what is your attitude when the going gets tough? I like to pull up my britches and give the groups I’m in my best effort, and if it’s too…bad, I try to politely excuse myself.
And also for the record, my main is a hunter, and I rarely get killed by AoE damage, as I pay attention to where I’m standing. If the stereotypically most noobisg class can move, so can the mages and rogues.
If someone apologizes for messing up, I’ll say, “It’s cool, these things happen.”
If someone says, “We’re taking a lot of avoidable damage. So we really need the healer to step it up so we can keep taking completely avoidable damage,” I will stay quiet.
If we wreck the key, I’ll apologize at the end for being a bad, whether or not it was my fault.
And then I will log off and play with my kittens. Right now I’m ranked over 1.6k with kitten .io, so it’s going pretty well.
In pugs, I try to stay calm when things go bad. I get annoyed when people take unnecessary damage but I feel like part of my job is to deal with it. It is still annoying to see DPS stand in rat traps in Freehold for example after all this time.
I will /ignore anyone who talks schitt during a run.
I give advice if we wipe to the same thing multiple times, stay pretty silent otherwise unless others speak up first. Despite the impression I might give on the forums, I’m a pretty patient person in groups. I definitely think healers whine too much and have a serious superiority/martyr complex. Play the role because you like it, not because you expect praise from others.
I don’t heal lfg, that’s how I handle it. BGs, w-bosses and elites are about all I can suffer thru. Though the other day I had to heal some instance I was unfortunately in due to blizz putting KTs behind 5mans. Hadn’t even set up a second spec on my allie but… meh… we finished.
If I’m struggling to keep up I’ll let the group know I’m not doing well and they should hang on tight or slow down. If the dps keep getting hot feet and it’s causing me issues I’ll let them know, if not I’ll just power through it. I rarely ever have issues on any of my healers tbh.
As to your hunter mobilty, well they are one of the most mobile classes out there, some classes must turret, you gotta take that into account. Pft typical hunter lmao… Just messing
While I haven’t healed since Legion, I will part with some wisdom that I’ve learned primarily as a tank player; secondarily as a dps.
I refer to mistakes made as we. “We pulled too much.” You’re a team. The team makes mistakes. Addressing it as the “team” will prevent specific players from feeling singled out in front of everyone. In that same spirit, I will provide suggestions for the team to overcome a certain obstacle if we’ve been beating our heads against it for awhile. Placing the blame on the team tends to yield more positive results from players than calling them out individually.
Cracking a joke or two can calm nerves and put players in a more relaxed mindset. Same thing with exuding confidence by making statements like “We got this!”
For myself, a little whisky goes a long way, but beyond that I have to remember that whatever I am doing, many others have done and on even higher difficulties. I am human, so are they, therefore it is possible to beat this encounter. I take everything as a learning experience so even if we don’t make the timer, the experience in beating the encounter is more important than just giving up and hearthing out.
If a certain DPS is a problem. Communication is key. Address the issue first with your tank. Let them know where and who you are struggling to keep alive. See if there is any way the tank can adjust their own mob positioning to help that DPS avoid standing in the bad. If all else fails, directly message the player and advise him of the issue you are having. Should they fail to respond, or the response isn’t constructive, discuss VTK with your tank.
On the rare occasion I actually get mad enough to yell at someone, I’m usually to busy healing to type anything. Or I’ve given up on trying to keep them alive and i just do me.
Being a healer myself, I rarely do much content as dps anymore, so i can’t say I’ve ever seen a healer rage.
I do my best to heal through anything - even stupid - but if your going to pull when my mana is under 20% your just a crap tank who isn’t thinking of the group.
If your going to give me crap because I couldn’t prevent the one shot you stood in while I was feared, or because I chose the tank over the dps not moving out of bad, that’s not me, that’s you.
Start trying to blame me for your bad play, that when I bail.
